Interesting.21 Jul 2021 14:06
This is the interesting piece.
“We always deal respectfully with folks,” said Patrick Brindle, Piedmont’s vice president of project management. “And if we weren’t those kind of operators, I don’t think we would be successful in entering into the number of agreements with landowners that we have.”
Landowners said they would prefer Piedmont only build a processing plant and rely on a foreign mine for lithium supply. Livent and Albemarle operate lithium processing plants in the county that source the metal from South America.